Commentaire de citation sur Les Psaumes 3:8

And [regarding] the verb I plead before You (אֶעֱרָךְ־לְךָ - e’eroch lecha, lit. "I will arrange/set in order for You"): The object is missing/lacking (chaser). It is as if he said, "I will arrange/set in order my prayer (tefillati) before You," as I explained previously [cf. Ibn Ezra on Psalms 3:8]. For the power/concept of nouns is [implicit] in verbs. [Like] "And He blessed (u-varekh), and I cannot reverse it" (Numbers 23:20) - [implying He bestowed a] blessing (berakhah). And similarly, "In the multitude of counselors, [counsel] is established ([etzah] takum)" [cf. (Proverbs 15:22)]. [These examples use] future/imperfect verbs. It is as if it were written above [in v. 3]: "For unto You I will pray my prayer." And the phrase before You (lecha) [associated] with "at daybreak I plead before You" (boker e'eroch lecha) pulls itself [forward] and another [word] with it [applying also to the next verb]. Similar [is the construction in (Proverbs 21:14)]: "[A gift in secret] pacifies anger (yechapeh af)" [where the action implicitly affects the anger]. And behold, it [the meaning here] is: "and I wait for You" (ve-atzappeh lecha).

Genesis Rabbah writes: Rabbi Phinehas said in the name of Rabbi Reuben. King David said to the Holy One, arise, five times in the book of Psalms.²Psalms, 3:8, 7:7, 9:20, 10:12, 17:13. The Holy One responded: my dear son David, if you would say “Arise O Lord” a thousand times. That is to say, arise God, yet I will not arise. When will I arise? When I will see that the poor are treated unjustly and the paupers will cry out, as the verse says, “because of the groans of the plundered poor and needy, I will now act, says the Lord” [Psalms, 12:6]. This is the meaning of the verse “Be silent, all flesh.” That is to say, when the Holy One awakes and arises, for the sake of the poor, then every person should be afraid of God and should be silent.³Genesis Rabbah, 75.1; Yalkut Shimoni, Zechariah, Remez, 569.

Genesis Rabbah writes: Rabbi Phinehas said in the name of Rabbi Reuben. King David said to the Holy One, arise, five times in the book of Psalms.²Psalms, 3:8, 7:7, 9:20, 10:12, 17:13. The Holy One responded: my dear son David, if you would say “Arise O Lord” a thousand times. That is to say, arise God, yet I will not arise. When will I arise? When I will see that the poor are treated unjustly and the paupers will cry out, as the verse says, “because of the groans of the plundered poor and needy, I will now act, says the Lord” [Psalms, 12:6]. This is the meaning of the verse “Be silent, all flesh.” That is to say, when the Holy One awakes and arises, for the sake of the poor, then every person should be afraid of God and should be silent.³Genesis Rabbah, 75.1; Yalkut Shimoni, Zechariah, Remez, 569.